prostitute's pupil

noun

Etymology

From the notional similarity in behaviour: both (the pupil and prostitute) accommodate but do not react. In the case of the pupil, it is reacting to light; and in the case of the latter, it is to the client.

Definitions

  1. An Argyll Robertson pupil, a characteristic sign in syphilitic eye disease.

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